Enacted in 2011, the America Invents Act implemented sweeping change to United States Patent Law by changing from a “First to Invent” system to a “First Inventor to File” system.  This paradigm shift brought with it a whole host of changes but, for plant breeders and plant patents, we can boil this down to a [...]

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